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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
3
Area Director Mrs Harriet Ray and local advisory committee report Red Cross has awarded 35000 to flood victims in MIDDLEPORT. 550 cases completed, many more to be investigated. Ray aims to finish by May 15 as flood aid waits and workers log long hours.
Meigs County residents receiving old age pensions are invited to a special meeting Saturday at 1 p.m. at Pomeroy City Hall. M A Howell, representing the pension group, says a state pension office representative will attend to answer questions and provide information.
Betty Chase leads Rutland in English placing first in the district and second in the county. Mildred Utsinger also ranks high, while Chase, Dorris, Canney, Russell, and Healey win spots to represent Rutland in Athens on May 1 for further exams.
Under Eleanor Whitney the Meigs County agricultural extension plan forms a county council. Officers include Rutland president Mrs James Titus, Reedsville vice president Mrs Effie Warren, and Chester secretary Mrs Pearl Mora.
Pomeroy residents share visits and travel notes. Kenneth Willoughby returns to St Marys after days with family. Harold Hilligas attends Farm Bureau managers meeting in Cambridge and an oil men meeting in Athens. Local visits include Mrs Cora Webb in Huntington and Elizabeth Fick visiting her sister in Athens.
At Hemlock Grange meeting Leona Story was elected Overseer replacing resigning Frank Clark. A large turnout attended as members and guests heard reports of a membership drive running through December 25. Music and readings accompanied refreshments. next meeting will include a seed exchange.
The Pomeroy Boat Club reports membership over 50 and rising, as Rufus Lide, secretary, presented at a Wednesday night meeting aboard the houseboat tied at the ferry landing. Emil Ball outlined plans to create mooring rings in the new parking lot wall and to boost boating interest. The owners formed a private yacht club, separate from the boat club, requiring boat club membership for yacht club entry. Membership in the boat club is one dollar annually. Dr. E F Maag was named president of the yacht club with D L Tracy as vice president, Robert Lytle as secretary, and T A Downie as treasurer.
Meigs County teachers identified with WPA Adult Educational movement and Nursery Schools will attend a tri county meeting in Wellston on Friday. Mrs. John Cranston will speak on Parent Education, Miss Marion Welch on Literacy, and Gene Wyatt on Community Forums.
Middleport notes show baker Ohlinger heading to Cincinnati for a bakers convention. Local moves include Mr and Mrs William Grate shifting from Harley to McKinley property on 8 Third Ave. Visitors include Miss Lenore Giles and W A Giles hosting Mrs Char les McDaniel of Fostoria. A Philathea Women supper and church class meetings are reported, plus guests arriving from Corning and Huntington. A Loyal Berean Class gathering, an Entertains Club session, and travels of Mr and Mrs James Askren are noted alongside hospitalities from Cle veland visits and property interests in Columbus. A Meigs County Farm Bureau Co op annual meeting is planned at the Senior High School on April 24 at 1 pm with Herbert Smoots as speaker.
Mr and Mrs Julius Chapman Bradbury were dinner guests of his brother Paul Chapman and Mrs Chapman Tuesday evening Miss Adeline Harrison Rutland and Miss Lillian Buck visited Mrs Bessie Moore Tuesday Mr and Mrs Charles Haley and daughter Kay Zanesville spent last weekend here with their parents Mr and Mrs Charles Buck Leonard spent Sunday with his parents at Kingsbury Mrs Clyde Brown Minersville visited her parents here Wednesday Mrs Ernest Harrison and daughter of Rutland were Sunday evening guests of Mrs Nora Johnson Herbert Johnson and Jacob Johnson left Wednesday for Columbus to seek employment.
Tennessee State Veterinarian A C Topmiller says women milking cows can yield more milk than men. He notes that dairy girls in Nashville demonstrate superior milking efficiency and suggests gender influences milking performance.
Feeney Bennett Post No. 128 selected George Childs Clyde Fisher and Cline Mathews J E Spencer as delegates and alternates to the Eighth District Convention in Jackson After the business session motion pictures on Safety were enjoyed courtesy of Rev C C Copely of Rutland
Funeral services for Mrs. Janet Reddinger, age over 80, were held at 3 p.m. at Ewing Funeral Home with burial in Bradford Cemetery. She lived along Harrisonville Road near Wolf Pen and had relatives in Meigs County. The obit notes Edison’s 1893 patent and the 1878 gramophone as world-changing inventions.
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